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Eistorical and Bibliographical notes on the 

■ ' military flnnals of new fiampsbire, 

witb Special Reference to Regimental 

Histories. «*«««**««««* 



By ALBERT STILLMAN BATCHBLIOR. 



HISTORICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 



military flmtals of Hew fiampsbire, 



WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES. 



BY 

ALBERT STILLMAN BATCHELLOR. 



A Reprint of a Chapter from the History of the {Seventeenth Regiment. 



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CONCORD, N. H.: 

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1898. 








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NOTE. 



These notes constitute a chapter contributed by me for the 
volume containing the History of the Seventeenth Regiment, 
New Hampshire Volunteers, in the War for the Union, by 
Charles Nelson Kent, regimental historian, recently published. 
This reprint is only of a single feature of that work. It is 
taken from the corresponding pages of his volume by Mr. 
Kent's permission. The article will have served the purpose 
intended if it should prove useful to libraries, collectors, and 
students, having need of a guide to the more important litera- 
ture of this state, relating to its military history. 

A. S. B. 

September i, 1898. 






HISTORICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON 
THE MILITARY ANNALS OF NEW HAMP- 
SHIRE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE 
TO REGIMENTAL HISTORIES. 



The little group of settlements begun in 1622, later tak- 
ing the names of Portsmouth, Dover, Hampton, and Exeter, 
and eventually, with their subdivisions and extensions 
towards the interior, forming the municipal constituents of 
the frontier province of New Hampshire, were early made 
familiar with all the essentials of war and educated to a 
mastery of its dire necessities. The supremacy of France 
in the north and the interposition of many tribes of savages 
between the English colonies and those of their rivals in the 
new civilization of North America, were constant menaces 
to our pioneer ancestors. At six distinct periods an actual 
state of war was recognized, and its existence met by levies 
of men and material which severely tried the resources of 
the colonists at all times, and often to the limit of their 
ability. The stockade was as much the evidence and con- 
comitant of the progress of this people in the reduction of 
the wilderness as was the meeting-house. The narratives 
of the adventurous and hereditary heroism of the men and 
women of the early periods of the extension of New Hamp- 
shire from the little fringe of hamlets on the sea shore, and 
its islands and inlets, to the borders established at the close 
of the war in 1760, fill our literature of history with an 
inspiration which has nerved the succeeding generations to 
heroic deeds. 

No more striking and instructive exemplars of the litera- 



4 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

ture of adventure and daring are afforded, even in these 
days of profusion in book production, than those chapters 
of New Hampshire history which recount the Waldron 
tragedy at Dover, the bloody adventure of Hannah Dus- 
ton, the battles of Lovewell with the Pequaquets, the Kil- 
burn defense of the block-house at Walpole, the strategy of 
Joseph Whipple at Jefferson, the fight at Baker's river, the 
captivity of Stark, the destruction of the Indian town of St. 
Francis, and scores of others equally trying to human forti- 
tude. Indeed these narratives of the brave and adventurous 
people who were the state makers of New Hampshire are 
almost innumerable, — 

" Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, 
Of moving accidents by flood and field ; 
Of hair breadth 'scapes i 1 the imminent deadly breach ; 
Of being taken by the insolent foe, 
And sold to slavery : of my redemption thence. 11 

The first general Indian war which the New Hampshire 
settlers encountered was known as King Phillip's war. It 
continued with some intermissions during three years, 1675- 
'78, in the period of the first union of the New Hampshire 
towns with Massachusetts Bay colony. Mr. Belknap's 
chapter 5, History of New Hampshire, Farmer's edition, is 
devoted to a narrative of events connected with these hos- 
tilities.* The next was known as King William's war. 
The French to the northward in Canada cooperated with the 
Indians and carried on a conflict after the Indian fashion, from 
1688 to 1698, a period of ten years. This was a most disas- 
trous decade for the people of the frontier towns. A narrative 
of the war is given by Mr. Belknap in his chapter 10. Cot- 

*History of the Indian Wars in New England by Rev. William Hubbard, edited by 
Samuel A. Drake, 1865; the old Indian chronicle being a collection of exceeding rare 
tracts, written and published in the time of King Phillip's war, by persons residing in 
the county; notes by S. G. Drake, 1867; Soldiers of King Phillip's War, by G. W. W. 
Bodsre, i8q6. 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 



ton Mather's account is found in his Remarkables of the 
Eastern War. A short period of comparative peace fol- 
lowed. In 1703, war with the French and Indians was 
again on, with a repetition of the alarm, material loss, suf- 
fering, and destruction 
with which the people 
had already become 
familiar. This, the third 
general conflict with the 
savages, was, like the 
second, waged on the 
part of the French and 
Indians as allies. It is 
known as Queen Anne's 
war. It terminated in 
1 71 3, soon after the 
treaty of Utrecht con- 
cluded between the 
French and English gov- 
ernments. Its ten years' 
duration suggested a 
similarity with King Wil- 
liam's war in this particu- 
lar, and Mr. Mather's Decennium Luctuosiwn was descrip- 
tive of both. Chapter 12 of Mr. Belknap's history is de- 
voted to this war. 

The interim of peace at this time was about ten years. 
In 1722, the province was again at war with the Indians. 
This was termed Lovewell's war, and continued three 
years. This famous ranger led three several expeditions 
against the Indians, sacrificing his own life in the last. 
These have always been considered as among the most 
famous in the annals of Indian warfare. The earlier New 
England historians, Hubbard and others as well as Mather, 
gave valuable accounts of such of these wars as were sub 




Albert S. Batchellor. 



6 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

jects of record in their time. Queen Anne's war and Love- 
well's were described by Samuel Penhallow, a prominent 
citizen of this province, and at one time its chief justice. 
His work is the first military history of any considerable 
pretension written by a New Hampshire author. It is a 
very rare work. A reprint may be found in Vol. I, Col- 
lections of the New Hampshire Historical Society, pp. 9— 
135, and it was also republished at Cincinnati in 1859 in a 
separate volume edited by Harpel. Lovewell's war is 
treated in chapter 14 of Belknap. "An Indian war," says 
Belknap, " was a necessary appendage to a war with 
France." In 1744, after the unusually long period of 
nearly twenty years of tranquility, France having become 
involved in the war between England and Spain, New 
Hampshire, with the other colonies, was drawn into the 
conflict and took an active part in it. This war, with its 
accompaniments of ravages of the frontier, and expedi- 
tions to the northward by sea and land, including the 
reduction of Louisburg, continued five years, 1744-49. 
Samuel Moore commanded a New Hampshire regiment, 
and ships and sailors were also equipped by this province. 
The account of it given by Mr. Belknap occupies his chap- 
ters 19 and 20. New Hampshire supplied men and 
means for the Louisburg campaign with great liberality 
and success. Col. George C. Gilmore, commissioner for 
the state, has contributed a valuable addition to the litera- 
ture of this expedition in the Roll of New Hampshire Men 
at Louisburg, Cape Breton, 1745, published by the state 
in 1896. 

Only five years intervened between this and the last 
French and Indian war. The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle 
took place in 1748, and hostilities closed in the ensuing 
year, but were renewed in 1754. The " Seven Years War," 
so called, occupies a prominent niche in New Hampshire 
history. This province bore a conspicuous part in the 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. J 

struggle which resulted in finally wresting the northern 
dependencies from the French. Robert Rogers, the 
ranger, with his corps, which was largely drawn from New 
Hampshire, has also held high place in the stories of 
daring deeds which distinguished that long contest. This 
was the military academy from which graduated Washing- 
ton, Stark, and a multitude of other leaders and soldiers of 
the Revolution. Chandler E. Potter, in his Military His- 
tory of New Hampshire, Adjutant General's Report, 1866, 
Vol. 2, and continued in the same for 1868, gives much 
space to the narrative of operation and the rolls of New 
Hampshire men engaged in it. Mr. Belknap also summa- 
rizes the events of the war in chapter 22 of his work. 
Regiments and large parts of regiments were successively 
forwarded to the seat of war from New Hampshire, under 
Col. Joseph Blanchard, Col. Peter Gilman, Col. Nathaniel 
Meserve, Col. John Goffe, Major Thomas Tash, Col. John 
Hoit, Col. Zacheus Lovewell, and Major Robert Rogers, 
with whom John and William Stark served as captains. In 
the one hundred years preceding the War of the Revolu- 
tion this province had borne a responsible and honorable 
share as frontier territory, and as an active participant in 
the six wars of the colonists and the mother country 
against the French and Indians, aggregating a period of 
thirty-eight years. As early as 1690 these colonies, with 
a considerable contribution of New Hampshire soldiers, 
sailors, and ships, carried the war to the front of Fronte- 
nac's stronghold on the St. Lawrence, and in the later 
wars twice assisted in the reduction of the fortress of 
Louisburg. 

In the next, the century of independence, again every 
generation had its war — the Revolution, 1775—82; the 
second war with England, 18 12—15 ; the war with Mexico, 
1846-48 ; the Civil War of 1861-65 ;* and now, in 1898, 

*For the account of New Hampshire's participation in the War of i8i2-'i5, and that 
with Mexico, see Potter's History in Adjutant General's Report for 1868. 



8 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

the war with Spain. And meantime no permanent peace 
was maintained with the Indians of the western wilder- 
ness until within our own time, in which extermination, 
reconcentration, and civilization have closed the bloody 
record of the encroachments of the whites upon the Indian 
domain, and Indian resistance and retaliation. New Hamp- 
shire has had place hardly 300 years in the geogra- 
phy of the world's progress, yet in that epoch her litera- 
ture, largely historical, has become abundant. This is 
specially evident in the domain of her military annals. 
These are rich in material, both manuscripts and prints, 
for the student of this historical specialty. Individuals and 
organizations are producing from various sources, both 
local and remote, monographs, and more pretentious trea- 
tises that are of conspicuous merit.* 

To those who are making studies in provincial records, 
biography of leaders, and the history of organizations or 
commands in the Revolutionary period, the lesson of duty 
which the civilians and veterans of this generation owe to 
posterity in the preservation of the military history of our 
own time is brought home. The difficulty of identifying 
names in the rolls of the organizations serving in the 
Revolution, with places of residence, family connection, 
and of particular lines of service, is often insurmountable. 
The accounts of campaigns of particular companies, de- 
tachments, and regiments are incomplete, indefinite, and 
confusing. The men who marched with the colors from 
Concord and Lexington to Yorktown, deserved better things 
of history and of the state. Dr. Belknap, in his work, 
which is still the unsurpassed narrative of New Hampshire 

*The indefatigable efforts of Col. Gilmore of Manchester in tracing individual 
records of soldiers of New Hampshire in the Revolution are specially valuable in prac- 
tical results. Besides the accumulation of a great many manuscript notes, he has pro- 
duced restored rolls of New Hampshire men at Bunker Hill and at Bennington which 
have been published. Report of special commissioner [George C. Gi more] on the 
Bunker Hill memorial tablets, 1891. Roll of New Hampshire Soldiers at the Battle 
of Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777. Compiled by George C. Gilmore, 1S91. 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 9 

annals from 1622 to 1790, devotes but one chapter to the 
War of the Revolution with which he was contemporaneous. 
His work, however, was published with financial aid from 
the general court, and thus the fathers gave practical con- 
struction in this behalf to the powers of the constitution 
which they had then but recently promulgated. They 
enunciated in that instrument the true principle for the 
guidance of those who should follow them and realize the 
prophetic and practical quality of their wisdom. Our state 
constitution, article 82, is in part as follows: — 

" Knowledge and learning generally diffused through a community 
being essential to the preservation of a free government, and spreading 
the opportunities and advantages of education through the various parts 
of the country being highly conducive to promote this end, it shall be 
the duty of the legislators and the magistrates in all future periods of 
this government to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences." 

It remained for a patriotic public sentiment developed 
since our own Civil War to bring out a state military history 
in the work of Col. Potter, and to make the Revolutionary 
rolls accessible to all interested students in the four volumes 
of State Papers, 14, 15, 16, and 17, which were so faithfully 
edited by Isaac W. Hammond. The widespread revival of 
interest in historical research which is now stimulating in- 
dividual and associated effort, both in new and old fields, 
has fortunately concentrated much attention upon the col- 
onial and Revolutionary period. The New Hampshire 
Historical Society is now making the Revolution a special 
subject of biographical investigation. The societies of Sons 
of the American Revolution, Sons of the Revolution, 
Daughters of the American Revolution, and several local 
societies are industrious co-workers to a common purpose. 
The Society of Colonial Wars and the Society of Colonial 
Dames are necessarily more interested in an earlier but 
equally important period. They will subserve a most benef- 
icent mission if they shall be able to make their publica- 



IO REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

tions abundant in authentic and systematic monographs and 
treatises in the history of New Hampshire in the colonial 
wars, New Hampshire's colonial regiments and ranging 
companies, New Hampshire in the colonial navy, New 
Hampshire's colonial governors, and her military leaders 
before the Revolution. 

This new departure in historical research and production 
was inaugurated by Hon. Ezra S. Stearns, one of the most 
accomplished students and writers of New Hampshire his- 
tory, in his monograph on Meshech Weare, published in a 
handsome pamphlet, and in the Proceedings of the New 
Hampshire Society of Sons of the American Revolution.* 
More than two score of topics in the same field are now 
prepared or assigned for the society. Local Historical so- 
cieties, also, like that at Manchester and that at Dover, are 
most effective auxiliaries in this work of investigation, com- 
pilation, and publication. f 

The earlier historians accorded scant mention of men and 
events in the northern part of the state in the Revolutionary 
period. This omission has been partially rectified in recent 
years by northern investigation, and by those who have in- 
terested themselves in topics connected with the early Revo- 
lutionary history of the ancient Grafton and Coos region. 
Among them are Samuel C. Bartlett in his addresses on 
New Hampshire in the Revolution, on Gen. Stark, and on 
Lieut. -Col. John Wheelock ; Henry O. Kent in his historical 
addresses before the societies of the Colonial Wars and the 
Sons of the American Revolution ; Joseph B. Walker on 
Robert Rogers ; Edgar Aldrich on Col. Timothy Bedel ; 
Chester B. Jordan on Joseph Whipple and Richard C. 

*Id. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Society of Sons of the American Revolu- 
tion, 1889, 1897, p. 62. 

f Gov. William Plumer was a contemporary with the men of the Revolutionary 
period and those of the later province period. His biographies which are numerous and 
critical are contained in several MSS. volumes in the custody of the N. H. Historical 
Society at Concord. An index to these five MSS. volumes is printed in I. Proceed- 
ing N. H. Hist. Soc, 435-457. 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. II 

Everett; Jeremiah E. Rankin on Capt. Jeremiah Eames ; 
William H. Cotton on Lieut. Col. Elisha Payne ; Charles R. 
Corning on Samuel Livermore, Robert Rogers, and Col. 
John Fenton ; William F. Whitcher on Col. John Hurd ; 
Rev. J. Q. Bittinger on Col. Charles Johnston; Roswell 
Farnham on Gen. Israel Morey; Alfred Russell on Col. 
David Webster; Henry A. Hazen on Col. Moses Hazen ; 
John L. Rice on Dartmouth College and the State of New- 
Connecticut; Frederick Chase on The College and the War 
of the Revolution ; Albert S. Batchellor on the History of 
the Northern Regiment of New Hampshire Revolutionary 
Militia; chapters of town history published and unpublished 
in Lancaster, Littleton, Haverhill, Hanover, Conway, Can- 
aan, Lebanon, Orford, Plymouth and Bristol ; Child's Gaz- 
eteer of Grafton County and Fergusson's Histories of Coos 
County and of Carroll County. 

There is, it may be noted in passing, but one distinct- 
ively New Hampshire regimental history which relates to 
the period prior to the Civil War. This is a History of the 
First New Hampshire Regiment in the War of the Revolu- 
tion, by Frederic Kidder, published in Albany, N. Y., in 
1868. 

The Records of the New Hampshire branch of the 
Cincinnati was first published in the New Hampshire His- 
torical Society Collections pp. 278-307. It was reproduced 
in 22 State Papers pp. 759-820. The historical notes of 
John C. French on this subject are timely and valuable and 
have stimulated a wholesome interest in these documents 
and the historical and biographical data which they dis- 
close. 15 Granite Monthly, 123. 

The history of the part borne by the state, the munici- 
palities, and the military organizations and individuals of 
New Hampshire in the great struggle between the states is 
comprehensive, detailed and critical. In no other common- 
wealth has it taken substantial and permanent literary form, 



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12 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

on more progressive theories and with more satisfactory 
results.* 

Immediately upon the conclusion of the war the rolls of 
those engaged for the state in the military service were 
published, but with inadequate preparation and correction. 
These constitute vols. I and 2 of the Adjutant-General's 
Report for 1865, and vol. 1 of the report for 1866. The 
contributions to the history of these various organizations 
are of unequal degrees of completeness and may be classi- 
fied as the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth series. The 
first series of these articles runs through both volumes of 
the Adjutant-General's Report for 1865. That official, in 
his general remarks, says this of the nine monographs 
which he was able to present : 

" I here subjoin the record of the New Hampshire volunteer organiz- 
ations in their numerical order. I would add that, although the histor- 
ical report of nine of the regiments is most meager and of a most unsat- 
isfactory nature, still it is the best that I have been able to obtain in a 
space of eight months. It is my wish, should I continue in office 
another year, to submit to your successor a historical report of the 
operations of each New Hampshire organization every way more com- 
plete and satisfactory .'' , — Adjutant- Generals Reftoi r t, 1 865 , Vol. 1, ft. 56. 

The second series, consisting of papers more carefully 
and elaborately written, is given under sanction of the adju- 
tant-general in his report for 1866, vol. 2. This excellent 
contribution to the military history of the state was made 

*The State publications, general histories, and regimental memorials are by no means 
the only accessible repositories of New Hampshire's record in the Civil War. Each of the 
series of histories of the ten counties has valuable chapters on this subject. Scores of 
town histories published since the war devote adequate space to the relations of town to 
persons and events in this conflict, and as to the war history of several towns special 
volumes have appeared, of which those of Claremont and Pittsfield are examples. Pro- 
ceedings of the state encampment, the G. A. R. and of the auxiliary association of the 
Woman's Relief Corps, are sources of personal data of interest and importance. The 
historical contributions to the proceedings of the Massachusetts Commandery of the 
Loyal Legion not infrequently give space to New Hampshire men and their services. 
The published proceedings at the dedication of soldiers' monuments and military 
memorial halls in towns and cities are in the same category. 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 1 3 

by Hon. George A. Marden, a veteran of the sharp- 
shooters, who took special charge of the collection of 
material and literary prosecution of the work in the office 
of the adjutant-general. (Report, 1866, vol. 1, p. 7). 
The introductory notes mention those from whom the 
editor received contributions or special aid in his under- 
taking. "Volumes," he adds, " would be required to do 
justice to the historic deeds of the brave sons of New 
Hampshire ; but it is surely worth while to preserve even 
these brief accounts of their toils and sacrifices, their weary 
marches and hard fought battles. Scarce a fight has 
occurred in all the war whose story New Hampshire cannot 
claim as a part of her military record. Scarce a battlefield 
exists which has not been reddened by New Hampshire 
blood. And the noble deeds of the men of the Granite State 
are not excelled by those of any other state in the Union." 

The third series consists of the chapters directed to the 
records of the several organizations in Major Waite's his- 
tory. This work was prepared within a few years after the 
close of the war. It is briefly described by title as New 
Hampshire in the Great Rebellion, Containing Histories 
of the Several New Hampshire Regiments and Biographi- 
cal Notices of Many of the Prominent Actors in the Civil 
War of 1861-65, °y Major Otis F. R. Waite, Claremont, 
1870. The material contained in series one and two is 
.argely utilized in this volume. 

The fourth series includes the sketches (in most in- 
stances condensed from the more elaborate works of the 
authorized historians themselves) published in connection 
with the rolls of the several organizations in Gen. Ayling's 
Revised Register. 

The fifth series is the one which includes the final vol- 
umes which are now being published by the veteran asso- 
ciations with state cooperation under the provisions of the 
regimental history acts. 



1 4 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

Descriptions of the separate chapters or volumes of the 
several series, with a number of citations to articles or vol- 
umes not classified, are given under the names of the organ- 
izations to which they relate. 

The survivors of the regiments, battalions, batteries, and 
separate companies themselves were the first to recognize 
the inadequacy of the historical sketches which appeared 
not only in the state publications from the adjutant-gen- 
eral's office but in the periodicals, and incidentally in local 
and general histories which touched war subjects. They 
appreciated the utility of the service rendered in these pre- 
liminary essays, but at the same time they found in them 
the suggestion and impulse of a necessity for more com- 
plete and comprehensive undertakings in the same direc- 
tion at their own hands and under their own auspices. The 
veteran organizations, one after another, voted effective 
measures to this end, and selected historians or designated 
committees for the purpose of accomplishing a more ex- 
tended and a more adequate presentation of their several 
histories. Martin A. Haynes of the Second regiment was 
the pioneer in this state in what is now understood as the 
special domain of regimental history. His work, which 
will be bibliographically described hereafter, was published 
in 1865, and in a few years became a high priced rarity 
with collectors. The Fourteenth regiment, the last of those 
raised for three years' service, was the first to bring out its 
contribution to what is now regarded as the regimental his- 
tory series. This was in 1882. In many respects that 
history is a model. Its tables of information in the ap- 
pendix are unsurpassed in system and accuracy. The 
narrative is graphic and discriminating, and the presenta- 
tion of facts interesting and reliable. It is also specially 
noteworthy in its attractive typography and its satisfactory 
arrangement of the subject matter. 

The character and contents of these several histories 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 1 5 

invite a more extended analysis and description than the 
limits of this chapter permit. It must suffice to remark 
that the student of New Hampshire military history will 
find in their pages an abundance of facts arranged in most 
attractive narrative. It is the familiar story of march, 
bivouac, and battle, but it recounts what belongs to our 
own brethren, to our own time, and to our own community 
and commonwealth. 

The effect of such a publication as that brought out 
by the Fourteenth upon the veterans of other regi- 
ments was to stimulate a healthful and productive spirit of 
emulation. It was an object lesson to the legislature, and 
an unaswerable proof of the high quality of the historical 
work of which the veterans had proven themselves capa- 
ble as memorials of their service. Legislation resulted 
under which it has become practicable for every organiza- 
tion to produce its own history, prepared by its own 
chosen historian, and issued without the necessity of 
serious pecuniary hazard. The first of the series of acts 
by which the regimental histories have been aided and 
encouraged was introduced in the house by Representa- 
tive Sulloway of Manchester in 1887.* 

The act of 1887 is entitled "Joint Resolution in Relation 
to the Purchase of the Histories of Military Organizations 
of the State in the Late War." The latest legislation on 
the same subject is the act of 1895, entitled, "An Act 
in Amendment of Chapter 14 of the Laws of 1891, Rela- 
ting to Free Public Libraries." 

The list which follows includes several publications 
which may not be accounted as properly classified with the 
regimental history series. The Dartmouth Cavaliers were 

*The bill in the form first proposed encountered so much opposition that there was 
scant prospect of its success. By agreement of the parties most directly interested, a 
new bill was drawn to meet the reasonable suggestions of the friends and opponents of 
the original measure. The result was the act of 1887. Each of the more recent sup- 
plements to the initial legislation was drawn by the same hand. 



l6 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

a body of cavalry accepted by Governor Sprague as Rhode 
Island volunteers, in which the greater part were students 
of Dartmouth college in 1862.* There were three com- 
panies of sharpshooters which were under command of 
Colonel Berdan, one in the First Regiment and two in the 
Second. The history of this organization is in its general 
aspects the history of the New Hampshire contingent. 
Narratives of service and rolls of membership in more com- 
pact form have been published as contributions to the his- 
tory of the New Hampshire battery and the Fourth Regi- 
ment. These volumes must be regarded as parts of the 
regimental history series, at least until more elaborate 
works from the respective veteran associations which these 
works represent, are produced with state cooperation. The 
descriptive list here given follows the order of time of the 
first mustering in of the members of each organization. 
The history of regiments and other organized bodies of 
New Hampshire men are often touched upon and some- 
times treated at length in published biographies of officers 
and others who had part in the service. Beginning with 
newspapers and periodicals of the war time, and the Adju- 
tant-General's Report for 1865, vol. 2, and continuing to 
the valuable series presented incidentally with special 
department of biography as published by the Grafton and 
Coos Bar Association, f these may be traced in many direc- 
tions, and with profit to the student. Their mention here 
even by titles would be impracticable. 

In the list of titles which follows, and which is an attempt 
to formulate a convenient catalogue of the productions 
which narrate the history of New Hampshire organizations 

*The colleges represented were Dartmouth 35, Norwich University 23, Bowdoin 4, 
Union 4, Wiiliams 1, Amherst 1, other members 17. 

f Among the notable citizen soldiers whose biographies appear in the proceedings of 
this association are Gen. Nelson Cross, Gen. Harris M. Plaisted, Gen. Gilman Mars- 
ton, Gen. John L. Thompson, Gen. John Hough, Col. Thomas J. Whipple, and Major 
Evarts W. Fair. 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 1 7 

in the Civil War, a classification in the manner already- 
indicated in respect to the period of publication and the 
origin of articles or volumes will be readily noted. This is 
intended only as an outline of what has been done in this 
special department of historical research and of what 
remains to be accomplished.* 

*A recent historical essay by Henry L. Dawes, " New England Influence in National 
Legislation," constituting chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of Vol. 1, Hurd's New England 
States, 1897, and the article by William F. Whitcher entitled " The Relation of New 
Hampshire Men to the Events which Culminated in the War of the Rebellion," consti- 
tuting chapter 2 of Abbott's History of the First Regiment, suggest a reference, at 
least, to a class of literature which, as a subject of description, is beyond the scope of 
this paper. In the war period sons of New Hampshire moved in important spheres of 
national influence. Only a few of the names on that remarkable list need be recalled to 
give point to this observation. In the United States Senate, Henry Wilson, native of 
Farmington, was chairman of the committee on military affairs ; John P. Hale, native 
of Rochester, chairman of the committee on naval affairs ; William Pitt Fessenden, 
native of Boscawen, chairman of the committee on finance and appropriations ; James 
W. Grimes, native of Deering, chairman ot the committee on the District of Columbia ; 
Zachariah Chandler, native of Bradford, chairman of the committee on commerce ; and 
Daniel Clark, native of Stratham, chairman of the committee on claims. Salmon P. 
Chase, native of Cornish, was secretary of the treasury and author of the financial 
legislation which produced the sinews of war. Horace Greeley, native of Amherst, was 
the greatest intellectual force in the journalism of that time. Charles A. Dana, native 
of Hinsdale, was assistant secretary of war, and known as the " eyes of the war depart- 
ment." John A. Dix, native of Boscawen, Benjamin F. Butler, native of Deerfield, 
John G. Foster, native of Whitefield, one of the defenders of Sumter, and Fitz-John 
Porter, native of Portsmouth, whose historic fight for the vindication of his good 
name and soldierly reputation, as admirable in its courage and persistency as it was 
successful in the result, were major-generals. Walter Kittredge, native of Merrimack, 
wrote " Tenting on the Old Camp Ground." Charles Carleton Coffin, native of Bos- 
cawen, the war correspondent, wrote the histories of the war which are most read by 
the youth of the land. 

The lives of these men, written and unwritten, constitute a part of the history of the 
period of strong agitation, Civil War, and reconstruction so important and extensive 
that it is appreciated only by those who have made the most profound study of the 
events which they influenced. Several of them were distinguished contributors of 
elaborate works devoted to the history of their time. A valuable summary of the 
biographies of New Hampshire men, including those above mentioned, and based upon 
Appleton's Encyclopedia of Biography, is given in the New Hampshire Manual for 
the General Court, 1895, pp. 1-58. 



l8 regimental histories and the state. 

First Regiment. 

i . History of the First Regiment New Hampshire Vol- 
unteer Infantry, by Ira McL. Barton, Adjutant-General's 
Report, 1865, Vol. 1, pp. 33-54. 

2. Historical sketch, condensed from foregoing, Adju- 
tant-General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 413—420. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Re- 
bellion, 1870, pp. 57-86. 

4. Historical sketch by Stephen G[ano] Abbott, regi- 
mental historian, Revised Register of New Hampshire 
Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Rebellion, by A. D. 
Ayling, Adjutant-General, 1895, PP- I— 2 - 

5. The First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in 
the Great Rebellion : Containing the Story of the Cam- 
paign ; an Account of the " Great Uprising of the People 
of the State," and Other Articles upon Subjects Associated 
with the Early War Period ; Map of the Route of the 
Regiment; Tables; Biographies; Portraits and Illustra- 
tions; by Rev. Stephen G[ano] Abbott, A. M., Chaplain 
of the Regiment; Keene, 1890; 8mo., cloth, pp. 511. 

Miscellaneous. 

(a) Sketches of Mason W. Tappan, Granite Monthly, 
Vol. 10, p. 375 ; History of Merrimack and Belknap 
Counties, 1885, pp. 22—26; Bench and Bar of New Hamp- 
shire, by Charles H. Bell, 1894, p. 679; Twenty Years of 
Congress, by James G. Blaine, 1884, Vol. 1, pp. 261—268. 

State Service, Three Months, 1861. 

Historical sketch and individual records of service, by 
Harry Pearl Hammond, Register of New Hampshire Sol- 
diers and Sailors, 1895, PP- 1 193-122 1. 

New Hampshire in the Great Rebellion, 1870, pp. 49-56. 



regimental histories and the state. 19 

Second Regiment. 

1. Historical sketch by J. D. Cooper, Adjutant-General's 
Report, 1865, Vol. 1, pp. 149-155. 

2. Historical sketch condensed from regimental history, 
by Martin A. Haynes, with additional data furnished by 
Joab N. Patterson, John W. Adams, and Richard W. Rob- 
inson, Adjutant-General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 421 — 
472. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Re- 
bellion, 1870, pp. 103-168. 

4. Historical sketch by Martin A. Haynes, regimental 
historian, Revised Register of New Hampshire Soldiers 
and Sailors, 1895, pp 25-27. 

5. (1) History of the Second Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers : Its Camps, Marches, and Battles, by Martin 
A. Haynes, Private of Company I ; Manchester, N. H., 
1865 ; i2mo., pp. 223. 

(2) A History of the Second Regiment, New Hamp- 
shire Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion ; by 
Martin A[lonzo] Haynes, Company I; Lakeport, N. H., 
1896; 8mo., cloth, pp. XV, 350, 125. 

Miscellaneous. 

(a) Tributes to the Memory of Gen. Gilman Marston, 
Proceedings of the Grafton and Coos Bar Association, 
Vol. 2, pp. I35-I58- 

Biographical sketch, Granite Monthly, Vol. 11, pp. 341 — 

347- 

Oration of Hon. Charles H. Bartlett, on Gen. Gilman 
Marston before the Posts of the G. A. R. at Manchester, 
N. H., Memorial Day, May 30, 1891 ; Manchester, N. H., 
1891 ; 8mo., pamphlet, pp. 22. 

Reminiscences of Gen. Gilman Marston, by William H. 
Paine, Granite Monthly, Vol. 14, pp. 331-335. 



20 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES A AW THE STATE. 

(b) Sketches of Joab N. Patterson, New Hampshire 
Men, 1893, p. 94; Life and Times in Hopkinton, p. 444, 
Register of the Mass. Commandery of the Loyal Legion, 
1891, p. 187. 

(c) Sketch of Edward L. Bailey, Waite's New Hamp- 
shire in the Great Rebellion, 1870, p. 123. 

Third Regiment. 

[Known as the Third New Hampshire Mounted Infantry in March and 
April, 1864.] 

i. Historical material in reports of John H. Jackson, 
Robert Williams, J. I. Plympton, Henry S. Dow, and 
James F. Randlett, Adjutant-General's Report, 1865, 
Vol. 1, pp. 240-257. 

2. Historical compilation from material furnished by 
John Bedel, R. W. Woodbury, C. A. White, Marquis L. 
Hobbs, E. J. Copp, and John M. Haines, Adjutant-Gen- 
eral's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 473-507. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Re- 
bellion, 1870, pp. 169-214. 

4. Historical sketch by Daniel Eldredge, regimental 
historian,. Revised Register of New Hampshire Soldiers 
and Sailors, 1895, pp. 99-100. 

5. The Third New Hampshire and All about It, by 
D[aniel] Eldridge, Captain Third New Hampshire Vol. 
Inf.; Boston, Mass., 1893; 8mo., cloth, pp. XXXI, 1054. 

Miscella neous. 

(a) Gen. John Bedel, by Walter Harriman, Granite 
Monthly, Vol. 3, pp. 5 13-515. 

(b) Historical Sketch of the Third Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers, by Gen. John Bedel, Granite 
Monthly, Vol. 3, pp. 516-534. 

(c) Dedication of the Monument Erected in Memory 
of Gen. John Bedel by His Surviving Comrades of the 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 21 

Third Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, at Bath, 
N. H., October 10, 1888; Concord, N. H., n. d. ; 8mo., 
pamphlet, pp. 33. 

(d) The Affair of the Cedars and the Services of Col. 
Timothy Bedel in the War of the Revolution (contains an 
account of his descendants, Moody and John Bedel) by 
Edgar Aldrich ; Proceedings of the New Hampshire His- 
torical Society, 1897. 

(e) War Pictures, by John C. Linehan, Granite Monthly, 
Vol. 18, p. 343 ; Vol. 19, pp. 83, 143, 208, 307, 356, 456. 

(f) Sketch of John H. Jackson, Waite's New Hampshire 
in the Great Rebellion, 1870, p. 181. 

Sharpshooters. 

1. Historical sketch of the three New Hampshire com- 
panies of sharpshooters, Adjutant-General's Report, 1865, 
Vol. 2, pp. 744-754- 

2. Historical sketch, by George A. Marden, Adjutant- 
General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 933-951. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Re- 
bellion, 1870, pp. 567-574. 

4. Historical sketches, by Samuel F. Murray, Revised 
Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, 
pp. 964-966, 972-974. 

5. Berdan's United States Sharpshooters in the Army 
of the Potomac, 1 861-1865, by Capt. C. A. Stevens (His- 
torian) ; St. Paul, Minn., 1892; 8mo., cloth, pp. 23, 555. 

Mis cell a n eo us . 

(a) Sketch of George A. Marden, One of a Thousand, 
1890, p. 395. Register Mass. Commandery of the Loyal 
Legion, 1891, p. 164; One of a Thousand, 395; Massa- 
chusetts of To-day, p. 32 ; Hist. Lowell, 435-6; Rep. Men 
of Massachusetts, 78-80; Nat. Ency. Biog., vol. 2, 284. 



22 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

(b) Edward Thomas Rowell. Register Mass. Com- 
mandery of the Loyal Legion, 1891, p. 215. Courier- 
Citizen Company, Hist, of Lowell, p. 448. 

First N. E. Cavalry, N. H. Battalion. 

1. No historical sketch in Adjutant-General's Report for 

1865. 

2. Historical sketch of the original battalion in history 
of the First New Hampshire Cavalry, by John L. Thomp- 
son and Walter Perley, Adjutant-General's Report, 1866, 
Vol. 2, pp. 875-909. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Re- 
bellion, 1870, pp. 544-548. 

4. Historical sketch, by Ezra B. Parker, Revised Regis- 
ter of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, PP- 829— 

831. 

5. No separate history of the battalion has been pub- 
lished under the provisions of the regimental history acts. 

Fourth Regiment. 

1. Historical sketch, mainly extracts from official re- 
ports, including one by Louis Bell, Adjutant-General's 
Report, 1865, Vol. 1, pp. 340-344. 

2. Historical sketch compiled principally from material 
from Francis W. Parker, with additions by Norman Bur- 
dick, from sketch of Colonel Carleton, and information 
by Frederick A.Kendall, Adjutant-General's Report, 1866, 
Vol. 2, pp. 508-535. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Re- 
bellion, 1870, pp. 215-251. 

4. Historical sketch, by Francis W. Parker, Revised 
Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, 

PP- 153-155- 

5. (1) Roster Fourth Regiment New Hampshire Vol- 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 23 

unteers, Compiled and Published by Authority of the 
Fourth Regiment Veteran Association, by John G. Hutch- 
inson, First Sergt., Co. E, Historian; Manchester, N. H., 
1896; i6mo., cloth, pp. 188. 

(2) Roster of Company E, Fourth Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers; n. p. n. d. ; 48mo., pamphlet, 
pp. 8. 

(3) Historical Sketch and Roll of Honor of the Fourth 
Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, Mustered into Ser- 
vice Sept. 18, 1861 ; Mustered Out Aug. 23, 1865 ; Man- 
chester, N. H., n. d. ; 241110., pamphlet, pp. 15. 

No separate history of this regiment has been published 
under the provisions of the regimental history act. 

Miscellaneous. 

(a) Thomas J. Whipple, Memorial Address by Hon. 
E. P. Jewell of Laconia, Proceedings of the Grafton and 
Coos Bar Association, Vol. 2, pp. 39—46, and Proceedings 
of the Southern New Hampshire Bar Association, Vol. 1, 
pp. 175-180. 

Sketch of Thomas J. Whipple, New Hampshire Men, 
1893, p. 238. 

(b) Memoir of Gen. Louis Bell, Late Colonel of the 
Fourth New Hampshire Regiment, Who Fell at the Assault 
on Fort Fisher, N. C, Jan. 16, 1865, by John Bell Bouton ; 
New York, 1865 ; 8mo., limp cloth, pp. 53. 

Sketches of Louis Bell, Adjutant-General's Report, 1865, 
Vol. 2, p. 794; Appleton's Encyclopedia of Biography, 
Vol. 1, p. 227. 

First Light Battery. 

1. Historical sketch, Adjutant-General's Report, 1865, 
Vol. 2, pp. 626-631. 

2. Historical sketch, by Frederick M. Edgell, Adjutant- 
General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 910-927. 



24 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Re- 
bellion, 1870, pp. 555-559- 

4. Historical sketch, by Samuel S. Piper, Revised Regis- 
ter of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, PP- 892— 

8 9 5- 

5. (1) History of the First New Hampshire Battery 

during the War of the Rebellion, together with the By- 
Laws of Platoon A, First New Hampshire Light Artillery, 
S. M.; Manchester, N. H., 1878; 241110., pamphlet, pp. 
20. 

(2) Names and Records of All the Members Who Served 
in the First New Hampshire Battery of Light Artillery, 
during the Late Rebellion, from Sept. 26, 1 861, to June 15, 
1865, When the Battery Was Mustered Out of the Service 
of the United States; Manchester, N. H., 1884; 8mo., 
pamphlet, pp. 15. 

(3) Names and Records of All the Members Who 
Served in the First New Hampshire Battery of Light 
Artillery, during the Late Rebellion, from Sept. 26, 1861, 
to June 15, 1865, When the Battery Was Mustered Out of 
the Service of the United States; Manchester, N. H., 
1 89 1 ; 8mo., pamphlet, pp. 40. 

No separate history of this battery has been published 
under the provisions of the regimental history acts. 

Fifth Regiment. 

1. Historical sketch, first year of service, by Edward E. 
Cross, with additional record by James E. Larkin, Adjutant- 
General's Report, 1865, Vol. 1, pp. 451-462. 

2. Historical sketch, prepared mainly from a sketch by 
Thomas L. Livermore, with data from a sketch by E. H. 
Marston, Adjutant-General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 536- 

575- 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Rebel- 
lion, 1870, pp. 252-296. 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE ST A TE. 25 

4. Historical sketch, by William Child, regimental histor- 
ian, Revised Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sail- 
ors, 1895, P'P- 209-21 1. 

5. A History of the Fifth Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers in the American Civil War, 1 861 -1865, in two 
parts, by William Child, M. D., major and surgeon, Histor- 
ian of the Veterans' Association of the regiment ; Bristol, 
N. H., 1893 ; 8 mo., cloth, pp. XV, 336, 228. 

Miscellaneous. 

(a) A manuscript journal by Col. Edward E. Cross is a 
valuable repository of the early history of this regiment, and 
is in the custody of Mrs. Persis E. Chase, a sister of Col. 
Cross. 

(b) Sketches of Edward E. Cross, Adjutant-General's 
Report, 1865, p. 799; Appleton's Encyclopedia of Biogra- 
phy, Vol. 2, p. 19. 

(c) Sketches of Charles E. Hapgood, History of 
Amherst, by Daniel F. Secomb, 1883, p. 889. Register of 
Commandery, Loyal Legion, 1891, p. 120. 

Sixth Regiment. 

1. Historical sketch, Adjutant-General's Report, 1865, 
Vol. 1, pp. 556-560. 

2. Historical sketch by Simon G. Griffin, Adjutant-Gen- 
eral's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 576-606. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Rebel- 
lion, 1870, pp. 297-337. 

4. Historical sketch by Lyman Jackman, regimental his- 
torian, Revised Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and 
Sailors, 1895, PP- 283-286. 

5. History of the Sixth New Hampshire Regiment in the 
War for the Union ; Captain Lyman Jackman, historian, 
Amos Hadley, Ph. D., editor; Concord, N. H., 1891 ; 8 mo., 
cloth, pp. VI, 630. 



26 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

Miscellan eo us . 

(a) Sketches of Simon G. Griffin, Successful New Hamp- 
shire Men, 1882, p. 58; Granite Monthly, Vol. 5, pp. 101- 
108; New Hampshire Men, 1893, p. 146; Men of Progress, 
1898, pp. 56-59- 

(b) Sketch of Samuel D. Quarles, History of Carroll 
County, 1889, p. 638. 

(c) Sketches of Nelson Converse, History of Marlbor- 
ough, by Charles A. Bemis, 1881, p. 45 1 ; Hurd's History 
of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, 1886, p. 276. 

(d) Sketch of Phin. P. Bixby, Waite's History of New 
Hampshire in the Great Rebellion, 1870, p. 311. 

Seventh Regiment. 

1. Historical sketch, by Joseph C. Abbott, accompanied 
by official reports by Joseph C. Abbott, Thomas A. Hen- 
derson, Augustus W. Rollins, and John Green ( John H. 
Horsfall), Adjutant-General's Report, 1865, Vol. 1, pp.639- 
658. 

2. Historical sketch, compiled principally from a paper 
by Joseph C. Abbott, published in the Manchester Mirror, 
including an account of the assault upon Fort Wagner, by 
Henry G. Webber, information supplied by N. M. Ames, 
and data from diaries of Charles A. Lawrence, Adjutant- 
General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 607-626. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Rebel- 
lion, 1870, pp. 338-364. 

4. Historical sketch by Henry F. W. Little, regimental 
historian, Revised Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and 
Sailors, 1895, pp. 350-354- 

5. The Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in 
the War of the Rebellion, by Henry F[ranklin] W[allace] 
Little, lieutenant Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers, regi- 
mental historian; Concord, N. H., 1898; 8 mo., cloth, 
pp. XVIII, 567, no, XXI. 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 27 

Miscellaneous. 

(a) The N. H. Seventh at Fort Wagner, Granite 
Monthly, Vol. 2, p. 208. 

(b) Sketches of Haldimand S. Putnam, Adjutant-Gen- 
eral's Report, 1865, Vol. 2, p. 815 ; Appleton's Encyclo- 
pedia of Biography, Vol. 5, p. 139. 

(c) Sketch of Joseph C. Abbott, Appleton's Encyclo- 
pedia of Biography, Vol. 1, p. 7. 

Eighth Regiment. 

[Known as the First New Hampshire Cavalry from Dec. 16, 1863, to Feb. 
29, 1864, an d as the Second New Hampshire Cavalry from March 1 to July 
25, 1864.] 

1. Historical sketch, by James H. Marshall, Adjutant- 
General's Report, 1865, Vol. 1, pp. 737-747. 

2. Historical sketch, including a history of the Veteran 
Battalion, by James H. Marshall, and excerps from a 
scrap-book of letters and other papers of Dana W. King, 
Adjutant-General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 627-670. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great 
Rebellion, 1870, pp. 365-395. 

4. Historical sketch, by John M. Stanyan, regimental 
historian, Revised Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and 
Sailors, 1895, PP- 4°3-4°7- 

5. (1). A history of the Eighth Regiment of New 
Hampshire Volunteers, including its Service as Infantry, 
Second N. H. Cavalry, and Veteran Battalion in the Civil 
War of 1 861 -1 865, Covering a Period of Three Years, Ten 
Months, and Nineteen Days ; by John M [inot] Stanyan, late 
captain of Company B; Concord, N. H., 1892; 8 mo., 
cloth, pp. 583. 

(2) Complete Roster of the Eighth Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers; n. p., n. d. ; 8 mo., cloth, pp. 
106. 



28 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STAIE. 

Miscellaneous. 

(a) Sketch of Hawkes Fearing, Hingham, Mass., in the 
Civil War, p. 284. Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co., 
Vol. 3, p. 272 ; Hingham in the Civil War, 284-286; Hig- 
ginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy, Vol. 2, pp. 
212, 462. 

Ninth Regiment. 

1. Historical sketch, by Rev. J. H. Gilmore, Adjutant- 
General's Report, 1865, Vol. 2, pp. 76-78. 

2. Historical sketch, compiled from data by George H. 
Chandler, Oscar D. Robinson, and Frank J. Burnham, the 
account of the battle of Spottsylvania being written by 
Capt. Robinson, Adjutant-General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, 
pp. 671-700. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Rebel- 
lion, 1870, pp. 396-420. 

4. Historical sketch, by George L. Wakefield, Revised 
Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, PP- 
457-460. 

5. History of the Ninth Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion ; edited by Edward 
O [liver] Lord, A. M. ; Concord, N. H., 1895; 8 mo., 
cloth, pp. XII, 761, 171. 

Miscellaneous. 

(a) An unattached company stationed at Portsmouth, in 
Fort Constitution, Capt. Davidson, became a part of the 
regiment in 1862. See sketch of the company in Revised 
Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, PP- 
986-988. 

(b) Sketches of Col. Enoch Q. Fellows, Granite Monthly, 
Vol. 8, pp. 315-318; History of Carroll County, 1889, pp. 
723-726. 



Dartmouth Cavalry.* 

(Precedes Ninth Regiment, p. 28.) 

5. Historical sketch, by John Scales, Revised Register 
of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, PP- 1089- 
1092. 

Miscellaneous . 

a. Historical sketches by John Scales, Granite Monthly, Vol. 4, p. 463 ; 
Dartmouth Literary Monthly, Vol. 7, p. 401. 

b. The College Cavaliers, by S. B. Pettengill, Chicago, 1883; i2mo, cloth, 
pp. 94. 

c. Dartmouth General Catalogue, 1890, mentions all alumni who served 
in the wars of the republic. 

d. Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College, by Rev. George T. 
Chapman, D. D., Cambridge, 1867 ; 8mo, pp. 520. 

e. History of Norwich University, 1819-1898, by W. A. Ellis, 1898. 

f. Dartmouth Roll of Honor in Civil War, in preparation, by Maj. Edward 
Dana Redington, Chicago. 

♦Served in Rhode Island Cavalry. 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 29 

(c) Sketches of Herbert B. Titus, Child's Cheshire 
County Gazetteer, 1885, p. 118; History of Chesterfield, 
by Oran E. Randall, 1882, p. 471. 

Tenth Regiment. 

1. No historical sketch of this regiment is given in Adju- 
tant-General's Report, 1865. 

2. Historical sketch, condensed from an elaborate his- 
tory by James A. Sanborn, with additions by Michael T. 
Donahue, Adjutant-General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 
701-730. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Re- 
bellion, 1870, pp. 421-443. 

4. Historical sketch, by James Albert Sanborn, Revised 
Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, 
pp. 5I3-5I6. 

5. No separate history of this regiment has been pub- 
lished under the provisions of the regimental history acts. 

Miscella n eo its . 

(a) Sketch of Michael T. Donahue, One of a Thousand, 
1890, p. 181. Register of Mass. Commandery, p. 82, 
Loyal Legion, 1891 ; Higginson, Massachusetts in the 
Army and Navy, Vol. 2, pp. 177, 521. Boston yournal, 
May 27, 1895. 

Eleventh Regiment. 

1. Historical sketch, Adjutant-General's Report, 1865, 
Vol. 2, pp. 201-203. 

2. Historical sketch, condensed from paper published 
in the Manchester Mirror, with additions by Walter Harri- 
man and Leander W. Cogswell, and from the diary of W. C. 
Wood, Adjutant- General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 73 1 — 
762. 



30 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Re- 
bellion, 1870, pp. 444-461. 

4. Historical sketch, by Leander W. Cogswell, regi- 
mental historian, Revised Register of New Hampshire Sol- 
diers and Sailors, 1895, pp. 555-556. 

5. A History of the Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment 
Volunteer Infantry in the Rebellion War, 1 861-1865, Cov- 
ering its Entire Service, with Interesting Scenes of Army 
Life, and Graphic Details of Battles, Skirmishes, Sieges, 
Marches, and Hardships, in Which Its Officers and Men 
Participated; by Leander W[inslow] Cogswell, Company 
D; Concord, N. H., 1891 ; 8mo., cloth, pp. XI, 784. 

Miscellaneous . 

(a) Life of Walter Harriman, with Selections from His 
Speeches and Writings, by Amos Hadley ; Boston and 
New York, 1888 ; 8mo., cloth, pp. 385. 

Resolution of the New Hampshire House of Representa- 
tives relative to W T alter Harriman, Journal of the Special 
Session, 1864, pp. 143-15 1. 

Sketches of Walter Harriman, Granite Monthly, Vol. 3, 
pp. 1—5 ; Successful New Hampshire Men, 1882, p. 74. 

(b) Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of 
Evarts W. Farr, published by order of Congress, Washing- 
ton, D. C, 1881 ; 4mo., cloth, pp. 54. 

(c) Letter of Charles R. Morrison, People and Patriot, 
March 24, 1892. 

Twelfth Regiment. 

1. Historical reports, by Thomas E. Barker and others, 
Adjutant-General's Report, 1865, Vol. 2, pp. 263-270. 

2. Historical sketch, compiled from a paper written by 
Andrew M. Heath and read at a regimental reunion July 4, 
1866, Adjutant-General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 763- 

781. 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 3 1 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Re- 
bellion, 1870, pp. 462-477. 

4. Historical Sketch, by Asa W. Bartlett, regimental his- 
torian, Revised Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and 
Sailors, 1895, PP- 603-606. 

5. History of the Twelfth Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, by Captain A. W. 
Bartlett, Historian Twelfth Regiment Association, Concord, 
N. H., 1897; 4mo., cloth, pp. x, 752-87. 

Miscella neous. 

Sketch of Joseph H. Potter, Appleton's Encyclopedia of 
Biography, Vol. 5, p. 90. 

Thirteenth Regiment. 

1. Historical sketch, Adjutant-General's Report, 1865, 
Vol. 2, pp. 324-339. 

2. Historical sketch, condensed from histories written by 
Aaron F. Stevens and George A. Bruce, Adjutant-General's 
Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 782-810. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great 
Rebellion, 1870, pp. 478-495. 

4. Historical sketch, by S. Millett Thompson, regimental 
historian, Revised Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and 
Sailors, 1895, pp. 650-655. 

5. Thirteenth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer 
Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, 1 861-1865, a Diary 
Covering Three Years and a Day, by S.* Millett Thompson, 
lieutenant Thirteenth N. H. Volunteers; Boston and New 
York, 1888; 8mo., cloth, pp. XI, 717. 

Miscella n eo us . 

(a) Sketch of Aaron F. Stevens, History of Hillsbor- 
ough County, 1885, pp. 37-39. 

* This letter is arbitrarily used, and refers to no name. 



32 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

(b) Nicholay and Hay's Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 10, p. 
209. 

Fourteenth Regiment. 

1. Historical sketch, by William H. Thayer, Adjutant- 
General's Report, 1865, Vol. 2, pp. 394-408. 

2. Historical sketch, by William H. Thayer, Adjutant- 
General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 811-834. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Rebel- 
lion, 1870, pp. 496-515. 

4. Historical sketch, by Francis H. Buffum, Revised 
Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, PP- 
693-695. 

5. A Memorial of the Great Rebellion : Being a History 
of the Fourteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, 
Covering Its Three Years of Service, with Original Sketches 
of Army Life, 1 862-1 865 ; Issued by the Committee of 
Publication; Boston, 1882; 8mo., half calf, pp. XII, 443. 

Miscellaneo us . 

(a) Sheridan's Veterans. A Souvenir of Their Two 
Campaigns in the Shenandoah Valley. The One, of War, 
in 1864, the Other, of Peace, in 1883. Being the Record 
of the Excursion to the Battlefields of the Valley of Vir- 
ginia, September 15-24, 1883. By one of the Veterans 
(Francis H. Buffum); Boston, Mass., December, 1883; 
8mo., stiff paper, pp. 128. 

(b) Sketches of Carroll D. Wright, New Hampshire 
Men, 1893, p. 95 ; Appleton's Encyclopedia of Biography, 
Vol. 6, p. 621 ; One of a Thousand, 1890, p. 675. 

(c) Sketch of Robert Wilson, New Hampshire in the 
Great Rebellion, 1870, p. 502. 

(d) Sketches of Alexander Gardiner, History of Clare- 
mont, by Otis F. R. Waite, 1895, P- 4 2 9 '■> Adjutant-Gen- 
eral's Report, 1865, Vol. 2, p. 830. 



regimental histories and the state. 33 

Fifteenth Regiment. 

1. Historical sketch, by Edward E. Pinkham, Adjutant- 
General's Report, 1865, Vol. 2, pp. 447-464. 

2. Historical sketch, by Edward E. Pinkham, Adjutant- 
General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 835-852. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Rebel- 
lion, 1870, pp. 516-527. 

4. Historical sketch, by Charles McGregor, regimental 
historian, Revised Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and 
Sailors, 1895, PP- 734-736. 

5. No separate history of this regiment has been pub- 
lished under the provisions of the regimental history acts. 

Miscellaneous. 

(a) Sketches of Henry W. Blair, Successful New Hamp- 
shire Men, 1882, p. 285 ; Granite Monthly, Vol. 6, pp. 
193-198; New Hampshire Men, 1893, p. 6j ; Men of 
Progress, 1898, p. 41. 

(b) Sketch of John W. Kingman, New Hampshire in 
the Great Rebellion, 1870, p. 579; biography in manu- 
script history of the class of 1843, Harvard College, in 
custody of Thomas B. Hall, 75 State St., Boston. 

Sixteenth Regiment. 

1. No sketch of this regiment is given in the Adjutant- 
General's Report, 1865. 

2. Historical sketch, by Thomas A. Gilmore, with addi- 
tions from a brief history, by James Pike, Adjutant-Gen- 
eral's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 853-865. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great 
Rebellion, 1870, pp. 528-534. 

4. Historical sketch, by Daniel E. Howard, Revised 
Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, 
pp. 762-765. 



34 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

5. History of the Sixteenth Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers, by Adjutant Luther Tracy Townsend ; Wash- 
ington, D. C, 1897; 8mo., cloth, pp. 574. 

Miscellan eous . 

(a) The first edition of Townsend's history of this regi- 
ment was published in the Granite Monthly for 1897. 

(b) A series of war-time letters fro.n this regiment over 
the nom de -plume of " Mascoma," was published in the 
Lebanon Free Press, and a copy is preserved in the state 
library. 

(c) A manuscript from James Pike, described as a com- 
plete history of this regiment, was lost at the time of the 
rebuilding of the state house. 

(d) Memoir of James Pike, Minutes of the New Hamp- 
shire Conference (M. E. church), 1896, p. 171. 

Seventeenth Regiment. 

1. No historical sketch appears in the Adjutant-General's 
Report, 1865. 

2. Historical sketch, Adjutant-General's Report, 1866, 
Vol. 2, pp. 866-868. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Rebel- 
lion, 1870, pp. 535—537- 

4. Historical sketch, by Henry O. Kent, Revised Regis- 
ter of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, pp. 791 — 

793- 

5. A history by Charles N. Kent is now in press. 

Miscellaneous. 

(a) Act of Congress relative to the status of the regi- 
ment, U. S. Statutes at Large, 5 2d Congress, July 21, 1892, 
Vol. 27, p. 781. 

(b) Sketches of Henry O. Kent, Successful New Hamp- 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 35 

shire Men, 1882, p. 21 ; Granite Monthly, Vol. 1, pp. 97- 
102; History of Coos County, 1888, pp. 372-378; New 
Hampshire Men, 1893, p. 332. 

Band, Second Brigade, Tenth Corps. 

Historical sketch, by Gustavus W. Ingalls, Revised Reg- 
ister of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, p. 
1002. 

First New Hampshire Cavalry. 

1. No historical sketch appears in the Adjutant-General's 
Report, 1865. 

2. Historical sketch, by John L. Thompson and Walter 
Perley, Adjutant-General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 875- 
909. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Rebel- 
lion, 1870, pp. 544-554. 

4. Historical sketch, by Ervin H. Smith, Revised Regis- 
ter of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, PP- 845— 

851. 

5. No separate history of this regiment has been pub- 
lished under the provisions of the regimental history acts. 

Miscellaneous . 

(a) See Notes on N. H. Battalion in N. E. Cavalry (or 
R. I. Cavalry) ante. 

(6) Memorial of John Leverett Thompson of Chicago, 
Illinois; Chicago, 1890; 8 mo., cloth, pp. 98. 

First Regiment of Heavy Artillery. 

1. Historical sketch, by John C. Jenness, Adjutant-Gen- 
eral's Report, 1865, Vol. 2, pp. 720-723. 

2. Historical sketch, by John C. Jenness, Adjutant-Gen- 
eral's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 928-932. 



36 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Rebel- 
lion, 1870, pp. 560-566. 

4. Historical sketch, by Charles H. Long, Revised 
Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, P- 
920. 

5. No separate history of this regiment has been pub- 
lished under the provisions of the regimental history acts. 

Miscellaneous. 

(a) First Company of New Hampshire Heavy Artillery, 
mustered in May and July, 1863, and stationed at Ports- 
mouth and Washington, afterwards made a part of the First 
Regiment of New Hampshire Heavy Artillery, Historical 
Sketch, Revised Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and 
Sailors, 1895, P- 9°6- 

(b) Second Company of New Hampshire Heavy Artil- 
lery, mustered in September, 1863, and stationed at Kittery 
Point, Me., and Washington, afterwards became a part of 
the First Regiment of New Hampshire Heavy Artillery ; 
Historical Sketch, Revised Register of New Hampshire Sol- 
diers and Sailors, 1895, p. 913. 

(c) Sketch of Charles H. Long, History of Claremont, 
by Otis F. R. Waite, 1895, P- 4 2 9- 

Strafford Guards, Dover. 

Historical sketch and roll, Revised Register of New 
Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, P- 9^9- 

National Guards, Manchester. 

Historical sketch and roll, Revised Register of New 
Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, p. 992. 

Lafayette Artillery, Lyndeborough. 

Historical sketch and roll, Revised Register of New 
Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, P- 99$- 



regimental histories and the state. 37 

Martin Guards, Manchester. 

Historical sketch and roll, Revised Register of New 
Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, P- 995- 

Eighteenth Regiment. 

1. No historical sketch appears in the Adjutant-General's 
Report, 1865. 

2. Historical sketch, compiled from contributions by 
Thomas L. Livermore, Joseph M. Clough, and Alvah K. 
Potter, Adjutant-General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, pp. 869— 

874. 

3. Historical sketch, New Hampshire in the Great Rebel- 
lion, 1870, pp. 538-543. 

4. Historical sketch, by Thomas L. Livermore, Revised 
Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, PP- 
801, 802. 

5. No separate history of this regiment has been pub- 
lished under the provisions of the regimental history acts. 

Miscella n eons . 

(a) A Night in the Eighteenth New Hampshire Volun- 
teers, by Frank P. Harriman, Granite Monthly, Vol. 5, pp. 
146, 147. 

(b) Sketch of Thomas L. Livermore, History of Mil- 
ford, by George A. Ramsdell, in press; Register, Massa- 
chusetts Commandery of the Loyal Legion, 189 1, p. 154; 
History of Suffolk County, Mass., Vol. 1, p. 569. 



38 regimental histories and the state. 

New Hampshire Men in Other Lines of Service 
than the specified state organizations.* 



Veteran Reserve Corps, Revised Register, p 

U. S. Colored Troops, (officers), " " p 

U. S. Navy, " " p 

U. S. Marine Corps, " " p 

U. S. Regular Army, " " p 

U. S. Volunteers, " " p 

Organizations of other states, " " p 



1 ,004. 
1,016. 
1,096. 
1,182. 
1,028. 
1,028. 
1,028. 



The gaps in this series are "not so deep as a well, nor 
as wide as a church door, but .... enough." The 
more important deficiencies observable in the list may be 
enumerated as follows : 

/. The Fourth Regiment. 

This organization had a distinguished record on the 
Atlantic coast and in the armies operating in Virginia. 
There is a good prospect that an adequate history of its 
service will be produced. 

2. The Cavalry. 

The New Hampshire Battalion, First New England 
Cavalry (sometimes known as the First Rhode Island 
Cavalry), forming the nucleus of the First New Hamp- 
shire Cavalry, participated in forty-three engagements. It 
will be a grave misfortune if this most deserving arm of 
the service is not accorded its memorial in the series. 

*In the New Hampshire Manual for the General Court for 18915, a summary is 
given of the biographies of natives and residents of this state which have place in 
Appleton's Encyclopedia of Biography. The reader is referred to this list, p. 51, for 
an interesting catalogue of names of New Hampshire men who have attained high 
rank in the military service of the republic. A biography of Natt Head, for many 
years Adjutant-general, is found in Successful New Hampshire Men, p. 223. The 
war governors, Goodwin, Berry, and Gilmore, are subjects of biography in New Hamp- 
shire in the Great Rebellion, pp. 577, 579, 581. 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 39 

The veteran association of the cavalry is entitled to all 
encouragement from the public to proceed with the enter- 
prise in behalf of a regimental history of the First Cavalry 
which shall include the record of the New Hampshire con- 
tribution to the First New England and the First Rhode 
Island. 

j. The Light and Heavy Artillery. 

These organizations have not produced histories for the 
state series. In conjunction, they might form a strong and 
successful association and might produce a work covering, 
in one volume, the history of both the battery and the 
regiment. This would give the artillery a much merited 
recognition, and its large constituency would command a 
successful patronage. It would go far towards perfecting 
the series in a direction in which it is now lamentably defi- 
cient. 

4. The Tenth Regiment . 

This was a sterling organization with a noble record. 
Good work has been done in the preparation of its history, 
but its veteran association has not yet been successful in 
bringing the undertaking to completion. 

5. The Fifteenth Regiment. 

This regiment has a history in such an advanced state of 
preparation that the public is assured of its early presenta- 
tion with satisfactory completeness in all essential par- 
ticulars. 

6. The Eighteenth Regiment . 

This was a contribution of volunteers which assisted in 
the important campaigns of the last year of the war. Its 
history should by all means be added to the splendid sym- 
posium which records the efforts and sacrifices of the 



40 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

Granite State for the Union. It is a cause of sincere regret 
that this addition to the series has been so long de- 
layed. It is gratifying to note recent measures taken by 
the association which promise a successful effort in this 
direction in the near future. 

7. JYczv Hampshire in the JVavy. 

This is a subject that has place in this important scheme 
of war history, and it has been the occasion of special con- 
sideration by the New Hampshire Historical Society. 
With the cooperation of Admiral Belknap, Admiral Wal- 
ker, Commodore Perkins, and other worthy and distin- 
guished New Hampshire veterans of the naval service, it 
is not without the domain of probability that an adequate 
history of New Hampshire's relations to the navy may be 
produced at no distant date. See Report of a Committee 
on Naval History, Proceedings of the New Hampshire 
Historical Society, Vol. 2, p. 284.* 

8. The Medical Branch of the Service. 

This subject is entitled to a separate place in these pro- 
ductions, and the work is in active preparation by compe- 
tent collaborators. 

9. The Chaplains. 

These officers are recognized in the legislation of the 
state as a division of the service entitled to a niche in this 

*The list of distinguished naval officers of New Hampshire nativity who are sub- 
jects of biography in Appleton's Encyclopedia of Biography includes the names of 
George E. Belknap. Enoch G. Parrott, George F. Pearson, George W. Storer, John G. 
Walker, Robert H. Wyman, rear-admirals ; John M. Browne, surgeon-general ; John 
C. Long, James F. Miller, Charles W. Pickering, George A. Prentiss, William S. 
Walker, commodores ; George H. Perkins, Robert T. Spence, James S. Thornton, 
captains ; Tunis A. McD. Craven, commander ; John Park, surgeon. This work was 
published in 1887, an d several of the officers named have since been advanced in rank. 
Senator William E. Chandler was first solicitor and judge-advocate-general of the navy 
department in 1865, and was afterwards secretary of the navy in President Arthur's 
cabinet. Appleton's Encyclopedia of Biography, Vol. 1, p. 574. 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 4 1 

memorial structure. Adequate organization and energetic 
effort on the part of the chaplains is all that is necessary 
for the production of a volume of biography and history 
that will wisely serve the cause which the chaplains devo- 
tedly and heroically represented, and add chapters to the 
military history of the state, illustrating the operation of 
the influence of religion and humanity in the midst of the 
hardships, dangers, and horrors of war.* 

It will be well for those interested in the preparation of 
the remaining contributions to the series to have in view 
the requirements of the law. These histories must, in 
order to command the approval of the governor and coun- 
cil, upon whose judgment the aid of the state depends, be 
11 faithfully, impartially, and accurately prepared, histori- 
cally correct ; to contain matter not otherwise conveniently 
accessible, and of sufficient reliability and importance to 
justify this patronage." It must be intended by these pro- 
visions that certain features are indispensable. Among 
these requisites should be an exact and comprehensive 
map of the routes of the regiment through its entire ser- 
vice, descriptions of all its battles and engagements, and 
its other important lines of service ; its relations to other 
parts of the army with which it cooperated ; biographies 
of all officers — distinct, detailed, complete, and authentic ; 
suitable mention of every member whose death in the ser- 
vice, conspicuous merit as a soldier, or other exceptional 
reasons render his individuality deserving of this distinc- 
tion ; all available rolls of membership, and the statistics 
which the best standards for such undertakings prescribe. 

* The First Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers in the war with Spain, 1898, is 
about to return from its service without having been afforded an opportunity to test its 
quality at the front of battle. Its history will be written, and may properly be 
accorded the patronage of the state. It is not doubted that, had the coveted post of 
honor been granted to these men, as it was to the New Hampshire-born leader of the 
" Rough Riders " at Santiago, they also would have demonstrated what the traditions 
and tutelage of Stark, Miller, and Cross mean for the military spirit which will now 
and hereafter bear aloft the standards of the state and the Union. 



42 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

Above all, painstaking industry in the collection of mate- 
rial, and courageous honesty in the narrative of events, and 
the treatment of every pertinent topic are the essentials to 
the value and success of any one of these volumes as a 
constituent part of the history of the Civil War. There 
are many models of excellence in this class of publications, 
but none more worthy of adoption by those who have to 
do with similar undertakings than several of the New 
Hampshire series. 

The text of the successive acts of the legislature on this 
subject will be appended to this article. 

They are based upon the idea of a practical encourage- 
ment of literature, education, and patriotism, a working 
principle made prominent by the fathers in the constitu- 
tion and approved by the people in the whole period of 
the governmental history of the state. The theory of the 
legislative aid thus bestowed is to help those who help 
themselves. Under its operation, the veteran associations 
which promptly assume the responsibility of placing their 
records in a printed form which complies with the statutes 
will be certain of the patronage of the state. This, how- 
ever, does not make such undertakings sources of profit to 
the movers, but it does obviate the necessity of any con- 
siderable financial loss. The state is a patron of these 
publications to the extent of about four hundred copies of 
each for distribution among the cities, towns, libraries, 
through exchanges, and for official reference. The state 
has fairly met the reasonable requests of the veterans in 
this behalf. It only remains for the organizations still 
delinquent to bring this beneficent and far-reaching under- 
taking to a successful completion by prompt and faithful 
conformity to the requirements of the acts, and by seizing 
the opportunity tendered by the wisdom of the people. 

The immediate utility of these works in the curriculum 
of historical study for the schools of the state is manifest. 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 43 

Every town has one or two sets available for the purpose. 
By the topical method of investigation the pupils can be 
directed to search the general course of our military history, 
and need not be left uninformed as to what is the record of 
their own state in this remarkable period. These books 
record the fact that Ladd, the first man who fell in the Sixth 
Massachusetts in Baltimore, was a son of New Hampshire ; 
that the Fifth regiment lost more men in battle than any 
other infantry regiment in the Union army ; that the Seventh 
lost more officers in a single engagement (Fort Wagner) 
than any other infantry regiment in the Union army ; that 
the men of the Twelfth and Thirteenth regiments were the 
first organized bodies to enter Richmond ; that the percent- 
age of loss by the Twelfth was greater than that of the Fifth ; 
that the losses of the Ninth and Sixteenth from exposure 
and other causes place the debt due to them for devotion 
and sacrifice among the first in the fateful catalogue ; that 
the other regiments exhibit records of singular distinction 
according to their opportunities in the service ; and they 
prove that, relating to every one of these organizations, 
there is most valuable historical material which renders 
their publications indispensable to any measurably com- 
plete collection of Americana. 

Indeed, so abundant is the information available to the 
student of this series of histories, so great is its value, and 
so striking is the lesson of good citizenship and patriotism 
it teaches, that indifference to it is discreditable to the sys- 
tem under which our youth are passing from the period of 
scholastic instruction to the active duties and responsibil- 
ities of private business or public service. 

It is not an unimportant consideration that the historians 
of these events were the actors in them. Every passage in 
the narratives is a statement of fact under the light and 
guidance of actual experience but with a modest and cau- 
tious reserve which excludes that over-coloring of imagina- 



44 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

tion and exaggeration that often mars the pages of his- 
tory. 

"A wonderful man was this Caesar, 

Who could both write and fight, and in both was equally skilful. " 

General Head pointedly states the facts as to the insuffi- 
ciency of the published rolls of 1865, and explains the 
reasons for the deficits which are admitted. In a new 
series of rolls in volume I of the report of 1866, many cor- 
rections are made, but still large blocks of names which 
had been given in the rolls of 1865 are designedly omitted 
or extensively abridged in the revision of the following 
year. These three volumes, however, remained the only 
authority conveniently accessible to the general public rela- 
ting to this subject and this period until 1895. They con- 
tain many original documents and reports relative to mili- 
tary affairs in the war period. Other contemporary public 
documents are of value for reference in relation to this 
subject. The messages of the war governors, the legisla- 
tive journals and acts, the reports of auditors, treasurers, 
and other state officials are never-failing sources of infor- 
mation for the historians of New Hampshire.* 

Not only were the lists contained in the reports of 1865 
and 1866 deficient in details and incorrect in respect to 
personnel, but several branches of the service in which 
New Hampshire was represented were entirely overlooked. 
In this category were the contributions both to the naval 
service proper and to the marines, to the regular army, the 
assignments to the regiments of colored troops, the Dart- 

* See also Waite's New Hampshire in the Great Rebellion, 1870, and Sketches of 
the Life and Public Services of Frederick Smyth, by Ben. Perley Poore and F. B. 
Eaton, 1885. Governor Smyth, as councillor and otherwise, had much to do with the 
affairs of the state in the war period, though he was not, as is often erroneously stated, 
a war governor. Chapter XIX, McClintock's History of New Hampshire, 1889, pp. 
611-630, is a summary of the history of the state in its relations with the Civil War. 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 45 

mouth Cavaliers, and other organizations and special 
departments of service. 

The " Revised Register of New Hampshire Soldiers and 
Sailors in the War of the Rebellion," compiled by Adjutant- 
General Augustus D. Ayling and published in 1895, i s 
complete, reliable, and comprehensive in all the features 
that are looked for in works of this nature.* 

A degree of perfection has actually been attained in this 
compilation which places it in the first rank in the litera- 
ture of statistical history. The work was prosecuted and 
perfected on the plan outlined in the report of a committee 
of the governor and council \ adopted in 1889. 

The original bill, introduced in the House in 1885 by 
Representative Musgrove of Bristol, passing to the senate, 
was referred to the committee on military affairs, of which 
Senator Kent was a member, and, with his cooperation, it 
speedily passed to enactment. 

A representation from this state was urged upon Con- 
gress in 1888 in favor of such amendment of the bill pro- 
viding for the eleventh census as should make it effectually 
inclusive of all the surviving veterans and widows of veter- 
ans of the Civil War. This was earnestly seconded by 
prominent New Hampshire veterans and our state delega- 
tion in Congress. The words in italics in the following 

* The first mention of the office of Adjutant-General is in the Revolutionary period. 
The list of incumbents to March 25, 1864, is given in Adjutant-General's Report, 1868, 
p. 381. Gen. Natt Head then came to the office by appointment of Governor Gil- 
more. General Head continued at the head of this department until July ir, 1870. 
Between that date and 1879 the incumbents were as follows : 

John M. Haines, appointed July 11, 1870. 

Andrew J. Edgerly, appointed Aug. 14, 1874. 

Ira Cross, appointed March 2, 1S76. 
General Ayling was commissioned July 15, 1879, an< ^ nas continued in the office to 
the present time. New Hampshire Men, 1893, p. 7 ; Register, Mass. Commandery of 
the Loyal Legion, 1891, p. 28. 

t Report of the Executive Council on Revision of Record of New Hampshire Sol- 
diers and Sailors in the War of the Rebellion, 1889, by A. S. Batchellor and John C. 
Linehan, pamphlet ; same in Adjutant-General's Report, 18S9, pp. 46-64. 



46 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

quotation from section 17 of the bill indicate what was 
accomplished: 

"Provided, however, that said superintendent shall, under the 
authority of the Secretary of the Interior, cause to be taken on a 
special schedule of enquiry, according to such form as he may pre- 
scribe, the names, oi'ganizations, and length of service of those who 
had served in the army, navy, or marine corps of the United States in 
the War of the Rebellion, and who are survivors at the time of said 
inquiry, and the widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines.' 1 

This information is now in the government archives, and, 
if published, would undoubtedly locate and identify a mul- 
titude of veterans whose records are still incomplete. It 
was expected that this comprehensive collection of data 
would be available to the compiler of the Revised Register, 
but the Federal government failed to publish that part of 
the census information. 

General Ayling added important original historical 
sketches of the several organizations sent into service by 
the state. These were contributed by regimental histori- 
ans or others qualified by special opportunities for accu- 
rate information on the subject. Carefully compiled tables 
of the numerical strength of each regiment or lesser forma- 
tion, with losses for various causes, are a feature of the 
work. The works of Mr. Phisterer on the " Statistical 
Records of the Armies of the United States," and of Mr. 
Fox on " Regimental Losses in the American Civil War," 
are convenient supplements for use with General Ayling's 
production. The important substratum of this work, 
however, is the personal history it gives of every New 
Hampshire man enrolled, a total of more than thirty thou- 
sand names. In each instance it is simple, terse, and 
authentic. All that painstaking research can do to clear 
these individual records from doubt and uncertainty and to 
accord an enduring memorial to every soldier of the state, 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 47 

characterizes this " New Hampshire Register of Soldiers 
and Sailors in the War of the Rebellion." 

The theory of the history of the several aggregations of 
these men in ship, regiment, troop, and battery is to indi- 
vidualize the New Hampshire organizations as distinct 
components of the great Northern army of 1861 to 1865, 
and to supplement the record of the individual volunteer by 
the more comprehensive narrative, which has place in the 
regimental history series. By this monumental literature 
heroic names and heroic deeds are commemorated, and 
the lessons and examples of the highest patriotism passed 
on through the coming ages of American progress. 

Legislation in Aid of Regimental Histories. 

(Laws of 1887, Chapter 145.) 

JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the purchase of the histories 
of military organizations of the state in the late war. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Court convened : 

The secretary of state is authorized to purchase copies of the history 
of each regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers which served in the 
War of the Rebellion, to be distributed as follows : Five copies for 
the use of the state library, five for the use of the New Hampshire His- 
torical Society, one for the library of Dartmouth College, one for the 
office of secretary of state, one for the office of the adjutant-gen- 
eral, and one for each town and city in the state ; provided, that the 
maximum price to be paid for each volume for a regiment of three years" 
service shall in no case, except as in special cases hereinafter provided, 
exceed two dollars and fifty cents, which price is authorized for volumes 
containing as much printed matter and as substantially bound as the 
cloth editions of the history of the Fourteenth New Hampshire Volun- 
teers, recently published, and in case the volumes to be purchased under 
authority of this resolution shall contain less matter than said Fourteenth 
regiment history, a corresponding reduction from said maximum price 
shall be required, and no such histories shall be purchased unless the 
same shall have been prepared by authority of the proper regimental 



48 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

association, shall have been found by the governor and council to be, 
as far as practicable in such works, faithfully, impartially, and accurately 
prepared, historically correct, to contain matter not otherwise conven- 
iently accessible, and of sufficient reliability and importance to justify 
this patronage ; provided, that in case the history of the regiment of 
the three years 1 term or longer as actually published, cannot be obtained 
at the prices aforesaid on account of historical matter necessarily con- 
tained therein, the governor and council may authorize the secretary of 
state to purchase the same for the purposes aforesaid at such prices as 
they may deem just between the parties. 
(Approved October 21, 1887.) 



(Laws of 1889, Chapter 128.) 

JOINT RESOLUTION relating to histories of New Hampshire 
organizations in the War of the Rebellion. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Court convened : 

Section i. The provisions of the joint resolution in relation to the 
purchase of the histories of military organizations of this state in the 
late war, approved October 21, 1887, shall also include and be appli- 
cable to like works relating to or prepared for the First Light Battery, 
the Sharpshooters, the Naval Contingent from this state, and the repre- 
sentation from this state in the regular army ; provided, that the history 
of each of these several divisions of the New Hampshire men serving 
in the War of the Rebellion shall not require more than one volume. 

Sect. 2. The secretary of state is authorized to procure in accordance 
with the provisions of said joint resolution of 1887, and in addition to 
the number therein mentioned, fifty copies of each of said histories, to 
be placed in the state libraries of other states, and in the libraries of 
the principal cities of other states, or exchanged for similar works, in 
order that records of the part taken in the War of the Rebellion by 
New Hampshire organizations may be equally accessible with other 
similar works at the capitals of the country. 

(Approved August 16, 1889.) 



REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 49 

(Laws of 1891, Chapter 14.) 

AN ACT in aid of the public libraries of this state. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Court convened : 

Section i. The secretary of state shall procure and furnish to each 
public library in this state, and the Soldiers' Home, one copy of each 
history of New Hampshire organizations in the War of the Rebellion 
which is not out of print, and has been or may be hereafter published 
in accordance with the provisions of existing laws. 

Sect. 2. This act shall be in aid of only such libraries as are reg- 
ularly open for the use of the public in the towns and cities where they 
may be located, and which are duly designated as public libraries enti- 
tled to receive state publications by the governor and council, in 
accordance with existing laws on the first day of February next follow- 
ing the publicatiou of such history. 

Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 

(Approved March 12, 1891.) 



(Laws of 1885, Chapter 120.) 

JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the duties of the adjutant- 
general. Two hundred dollars conditionally appropriated for making 
abstracts of military records. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Represe?itatives in General 
Court convened : 

That the adjutant-general is hereby authorized to prepare abstracts 
from the records of his office for the use of any persons actually engaged 
in the preparation of histories of regiments or other military organiza- 
tions, or the military history of towns in this state ; and for such 
clerical assistance as may be necessary to enable him to perform said 
duties, he shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, upon due warrant of the governor; provided, that such 
abstracts shall not be required under this resolution unless the prepara- 
tion of such histories shall have been authorized by vote of the town or 
city or veteran association to which it particularly relates ; and further 
provided, that the expense for clerk hire shall in no case exceed two 
hundred dollars in any one year. 

(Approved August 13, 1885.) 



50 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND THE STATE. 

(Chapter 120, Laws of 1891.) 

JOINT RESOLUTION relating to the collection of pictures and 
portraits illustrative of the part taken by this state in the War of the 
Rebellion. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in Ge?ieral 
Court convened : 

That the sum of one hundred dollars is hereby annually appropriated 
to be expended by the adjutant-general, under the direction of the gov- 
ernor and council, to procure photographs and other illustrations of the 
part taken by this state in the War of the Rebellion, to be preserved 
and exhibited in the state house. 

(Approved April 11, 1891.) 



(Chapter 45, Laws of 1895.) 

AN ACT in amendment of chapter 14 of the Laws of 1891, relat- 
ing to free public libraries.. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Gen- 
eral Court convened: 

Section i . The authority given the governor and council and sec- 
retary of state with reference to furnishing regimental histories to free 
public libraries and other recipients designated bylaw, shall include the 
histories of the New Hampshire contingent in the organization of 
sharpshooters, the New Hampshire batteries, the organization desig- 
nated as the Seventeenth Regiment of Infantry, the service of the New 
Hampshire men in the medical department, and the services of those 
commissioned and acting as chaplains in the War of the Rebellion ; 
provided, the regular veteran association of those organizations or 
classes in the service shall approve of the works as published, and com- 
pliance shall be made with all other provisions of law relating to such 
publications. 

Sect. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions 
of this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect upon its 
passage. 

(Approved March 19, 1895.) 



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